4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Michal Mackowiak is preparing for the STSM in Gdansk, Poland. The goal of this mission is to perform measurements of the path loss in off-body channels in indoor environments and compare obtained results with previously developed channel model.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
In WP2, the simulations of SAR for Duke and Eartha models and UMTS and LTE systems have been completed and reported. Luis M. Correia and Michal Mackowiak participated in the meeting in Paris, and discussed future simulations scenarios and methodology for the statistical analysis. In WP3, Michal Mackowiak participated in the meeting in Paris, where the work plan for the Deliverable D3.3 on the Exposure Index Assessment was discussed. In WP5, the work is progressing with OPNET simulations.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Currently, the OpenAirInterface LTE emulator is being used to benchmark the virtualisation of base stations, by profiling the Virtual Machines’ computation resources dependency on traffic load and radio resources usage. In parallel, the work on two associated research topics, on (a) the management of virtual radio resources and (b) radio and cloud resources management, is progressing.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The activity within WP23 on cloudification of LTE’s base stations is progressing. In a meeting in Lisbon with EURECOM, several issues were clarified with respect to the OpenAirInterface software, towards the profiling of computation resources usage. In WP13 Michal Mackowiak and Marco Beko together with partners from PUT are working on integration of BAN channel propagation model with coding algorithms.

FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt
The submission of the progress reports by the pupils competing for the FAQtos Prize has been finalised in February 28th, and after that we have 33 groups still competing. The next deadline is the delivery of the final report by May 12th. FAQtos’ talks at secondary schools continue to occur, with actions in Amadora and Fátima during the past month, and more are scheduled for the coming weeks.